Contributions + Scientists

Question 1

Coacervates, Conditions on primitive earth were favourable for chemical evolution

Answer 1

Oparin

Question 2

Recreated
probable conditions on primitive earth

Answer 2

Stanley Miller & Harold Urey

Question 3

Proposed the recapitulation theory

Answer 3

Ernst Haeckel

Question 4

Natural Selection

Answer 4

Charles Darwin

Question 5

Mutation

Answer 5

Hugo de Vries

Question 6

Theory of Human Population
Growth/ Essays on population

Answer 6

T. R. Malthus

Question 7

DNA finger printing

Answer 7

Alec Jeffreys

Question 8

Reverse transcription

Answer 8

Temin and Baltimore

Question 9

proposed Lac operon.

Answer 9

Jacob, Monad and Lwoff

Question 10

Structure of DNA

Answer 10

Watson and Crick

Question 11

Genetic code

Answer 11

Nirenberg and Khorana

Question 12

Cistron, recon, muton

Answer 12

Benzer

Question 13

Father of genetics

Answer 13

Gregor Mendel

Question 14

Chromosomal theory of
inheritance

Answer 14

Sutton and Boveri

Question 15

Rediscovered Mendelism

Answer 15

. Hugo de Vries, Correns and Tschermack

Question 16

Linkage

Answer 16

T H Morgan

Question 17

Plant tissue culture

Answer 17

P Maheshwari

Question 18

Discovered X-chromosome

Answer 18

Henking

Question 19

Isolated nucleic acid from pus cells,
called Nuclein

Answer 19

F. Meischer

Question 20

Rule of equivalence in DNA structure

Answer 20

Chargaff

Question 21

Transformation in bacteria

Answer 21

F. Griffith

Question 22

DNA is the
genetic material

Answer 22

Avery, MacLeod and McCarty

Question 23

DNA is the genetic material

Answer 23

Hershey and Chase

Question 24

Semi-conservative
replication of DNA

Answer 24

Meselson and Stahl

Question 25

Triplet nature of codons

Answer 25

G. Gamow

Question 26

discovered polynucleotide
phosphorylase

Answer 26

S Ochoa

Question 27

divided the Earth into biogeographical
regions

Answer 27

Wallace

Question 28

Green revolution in India

Answer 28

M S Swaminathan

Question 29

discovered Restriction Enzyme

Answer 29

H Boyer

Question 30

method to transfer plasmid DNA in
host cells

Answer 30

S Cohen

Question 31

Father of Indian Ecology

Answer 31

R. Mishra

Question 32

coined the term Biodiversity

Answer 32

E. Wilson

Question 33

Rivet Popper Hypothesis

Answer 33

P Ehrlich

Question 34

DNA/Protein sequencing

Answer 34

Sanger